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Adnan Oktar (Harun Yahya)
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These ideas took root at once [In China], for China did not have the innate
intellectual and religious barriers to evolution that often existed in the
West. Indeed, in some respects, Darwin seemed almost Chinese! …Taoist
and Neo-Confucian thought had always stressed the "thingness" of hu-
mans. Our being at one with the animals was no great shock…Today, the
official philosophy is Marxist-Leninism (of a kind). But without the secular
materialist approach of Darwinism (meaning now the broad social philos-
ophy), the ground would not have been tilled for Mao and his revolution-
aries to sow their seed and reap their crop. 73

"China And Charles Darwin"
Darwinism's influence on 20th century China was so great that the
famous Harvard historian, James Reeve Pusey, devoted a book entitled
China and Charles Darwin to this one subject. In this book he relates
how Darwin's Origin of Species, published in England and translated
into Chinese 36 years later in 1895, spread with extraordinary speed
among Chinese intellectuals, with immense social and political effects.
in the preface to his book, Pusey writes:
"The weaker go down before the stronger" – After 1895, the Japanese-
Chinese translation of the famous Spencerian slogan, "the survival of the
fittest," yu sheng lieh pai (the superior win, the inferior lose), ...was to force
its way into a thousand essays and dominate for a time the Chinese edito-
rial mind as the argument for almost
any course of action. 74
In the same book, Pusey examines
the currents of thought developing in
China in the first half of the 20th century
and tells how they established the foun-
dation for Maoism. One of the people he
considered was Liang Chi-chao, was a

In China and Charles Darwin, Harvard
University historian James Reeve Pusey ex-
plained that Darwinism had great influence in
China and prepared the foundation for both
Communist and Fascist ideas.